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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 439: I Defragged My Mac (and I Liked It)

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2013

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Dave and John are back at it again, this time in addition to answering your questions they share some of their own experiences, too. For the first time in a long time Dave defragmented one of his hard drives, so he talks about that experience and how he did it. Question topics include why kernel_task takes up so much RAM, how 802.11n works with more than one frequency spectrum, and much more. Download today and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Cat Geek Web, number 439 for Sunday, March 3rd, 2013, that's 3,

0:09.8

3, 13. 313. Greetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Matt Geek Geek Cab, the show where you send in questions,

0:33.9

tips, and cool stuff found.

0:35.2

We answer your questions.

0:36.4

We share your tips.

0:37.2

We share tips of our own.

0:38.2

We share some stories that we've had.

0:39.8

And together, we all try to learn at least four things new about the Mac and other

0:44.9

Apple products and really just enhance our computing life in general.

0:48.8

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:52.4

And here in Flurry infested.

0:57.0

Fairfield Connecticut, John F. Braun, not really infested.

1:01.0

There were some though, it was kind of a weird thing. I was I was a growing some a late lunchup that yeah there were little little snowflakes coming, but it wasn't a that's good. Certainly not as serious as a few weeks ago. That's good. Certainly not as serious as a few weeks ago.

1:14.0

That's good.

1:15.0

I'm just happy.

1:16.0

I have to say John, you know, there's a litmus test that I've been going through for the

1:20.0

past several months and it is the beginning of the show and I'm happy to say that I

1:26.2

feel like I've got my greetings back because that whole thing that was going on with my

1:30.7

throat really kind of impacted my ability to do that, you know,

1:34.3

and I had to sort of fake it and push and all of that stuff. Now I don't think I had acid reflux

1:40.7

as it turns out. I may have, but I know what was causing it and I think it was actually

1:45.6

just wrecking my throat. I had developed a bad habit, John. I had developed, I had.

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